The satellites were earth observation satellites, and the periods of interference only lasted minutes at a time. The commission found that whoever was hacking into them "achieved all steps required to command the satellite"—though they never actually exercised that control. The incursion took place through a commercial satellite station based in Norway.

That makes defacing web sites and scooping up emails seem a little...junior varsity? Anonymous needs to up its game, and start send flaming balls of wreckage careening toward its enemies from the sky.